D-Day

Like many things in World War II, the answer to this question is entirely unclear. While it is said that D-Day opened a second front, it actually opened a third front. At the time of D-Day, Germany was faced with battle in the East against Russia, the south against the UK in the Italian peninsula, and now the west against a coalition of Allied forces. It is unclear how the Allies in Italy would have fared without D-Day, but more important is the Eastern front. Before D-Day, the Germans were being pushed back finally by Russian forces. Few, in fact, believed that Germany would have eventually prevailed. During World War II, however, Russia has sustained what is believed to be over 50 million dead. How many more dead could their economy absorb before simply collapsing due to lack of labor? If D-Day had not happened, it would have significantly delayed the end of the war, perhaps causing it to last for years longer. While there is no evidence that the Russian war machine was slowing, it is not completely unlikely that they would soon find themselves in a terrible situation. Many are keen to argue that Russia would have lost or Russia would have won anyway, but is entirely meaningless. History is built by events that did actually transpire, rather than silly hypotheticals. Regardless of whether they would have won or lost, though, it is very fortunate that D-Day did happen. The American intervention meant that the Russians were unable to conquer the entire continent as they were entirely capable and willing to do. Instead, Allied and Russian forces met each other in Germany, and that became the borders of the Iron Curtain to last until the early 1990's.

It comes out on the 10.11.12 I hope that answers your question.

A well-known sign/countersign is that used by the Allied forces on D-Day during World War II: the challenge/sign was "flash", the password "thunder", and the countersign (to challenge the person giving the first code word) "Welcome".

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3 days! but it really was not considered a holiday until president Lincon declared it a holiday in 1863 and he was the first one to do this.

im pretty sure it was 1938, ---- but that was when he signed the munich pact too?

The Tea Act was a British legislation that granted a monopoly on tea to the East India Company in the American colonies. Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.

It finally caused all the concentrations camps to be liberated and holocause victims set free..

On Monday 25th December 1066, William the Duke of Normandy overthrew the Anglo-Saxon's army (With the help of his army) and became the new king

The initial invasion of the Battle of Normandy (commonly known as D-Day) began on June 6, 1944 and ended that day. However, the overall Normandy Campaign ended on August 21st when the Falaise pocket was closed.

there were around 10,000 casualties on D-day

Considering he rallied the US population into one solidified nation, brought the US out of a serious depression (the stockmarket crash of 1929 sent the US into a depression during the 1930's), defeated the most powerful enemies in the world at that time, and out-produced all of the world's nations in EVERYTHING; he made little to no mistakes worthy of note.

Actually, he made a mistake...In 1942, he signed an executive order that sent 110,000 Japanese Americans to interment camps in remote desert areas because U.S. officials were paranoid about the fact that these people were spies and secretly scheming with Japan (for a possible attack).

The morality presented was that dropping the bomb would end the war and save more lives because the U.S. would not have to invade and fight through the cities there to subdue it. == The standard answer (and arguably most true) is that using the Atomic Bomb stopped the Japanese from fighting a protracted war for Japan. While a horrific thing to be sure the loss of life encountered by the dropping of 2 bombs was probably less than what would have been experienced in an island to island, to the last man war of attrition. Hindsight is always 20/20 and people can say all day that we shouldn't have done it, but the reality is that we did it and it can't be taken back. The other thing to consider here is that we warned Japan repeatedly that we were in possession of a weapon that would change the very face of war as we knew it, and that we were prepared to use it. The Japanese told the US to get bent, basically, and even after we dropped the first bomb they refused to surrender. I guess when you get down to brass tacks there really is nothing moral about war. It is a terrible thing to undertake and I think that the decision to use atomic weapons was the best option we had at the time. ==

Approximately 1,500 Canadian soldiers died in the War of 1812. Some of the soldiers died in action while most of the died from disease.

Yes, they both refer to the invasion of Normandy by the allies, although D-Day truly means the day of an attack.

William the Duke of Normandy landed at Hastings at 1066

Victory in Europe in World War II is called V-E Day and was on 8 May 1945,

after Germany surrendered unconditionally to Great Britain, Soviet Union (Russia) and United States.

Russia and some other countries celebrate Victory Day on May 9.

It forced the Germans to fight on TWO fronts. In the east against the Russian army, and in the west against the Allies. Eventually, the Germans were forced back into their own territory, where they were finally defeated, by the two Allied armies that surrounded the German army.It opened yet another front on Germany and liberated the European counties. The three fronts where Russian to the east, Italian to the south and France to the West. It also stopped the Red army of Russia to take over the whole of Germany and possibly some of the low counties as well. If this happened the world we live in now would be a different place.

No single list of the 70,000 who served on Iwo Jima exists.

Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith commanded the landing.

Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon Block, PFC Franklin Sousley, PFC Rene Gagnon, PFC Ira Hayes and Navy Corpsman PM2 John Bradley are all known to have been there since Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press is known to have taken their picture at the top of Mount Suribachi.

Twenty-two Marines can be readily named from the list of Medal of Honor winners.

John Basilone who won the Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal died on Iwo Jima,

"D-Day" was the day of the beginning of the Allied inavasion of Europe for the purpose of driving out the Nazis. It was the largest amphibious assault ever. While the overwhelming scope of that operation has given the term "D-Day" that special significance, it originally was, and still is, rather mundane military terminology for a target day in planning a campaign, in the same way the term "H-Hour" is sometimes used. The terminology makes it possible to do the planning without reference to actual calendar dates, partly for reasons of operational security, and partly because that daate might not be finally chosen until late in the process. So in the scheduling of events, it would look like a countdown: D-Day-minus-10, D-Day-minus-9, and so on as preparations are made, up until the day the operation began, D-Day, followed by D-Day-plus-1, D-Day-plus-2, which would deal in goals for the operation and the ongoing support.

As far as i know the code name was confidential or was not present but it is often called the Salerno D-Day

Not many, relative to other Allied losses, especially American. According to D-Day.org: "Most of the 1,100 officers and men of the Royal Australian Volunteer Naval Reserve taking part in Operation Neptune on D-Day served aboard British ships or as commanders of several landing flotillas and motor torpedo boats. Approximately 11,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officers and men served with Royal Air Force (RAF) or RAAF squadrons for every phase of D-Day. Australia also provided 15 percent of the 1136 aircraft committed by Bomber Command on D-Day." "Australia, with the great bulk of its forces fighting Japan in the south-west Pacific, took a relatively small part in the operation, but the invasion force included up to about 3,000 Australians. About a dozen Australian soldiers were attached to British army formations, learning the ropes in preparation for amphibious operations in the Pacific later in the war. Some 500 Australian sailors served in dozens of Royal Navy warships, from battleships and corvettes down to motor torpedo boats and landing craft. Several Australians commanded flotillas of tank-landing ships, while others piloted landing craft carrying British and Canadian infantry onto the beaches. Australia's main contribution was in the air. Between 2,000 and 2,500 Australian airmen served in dozens of RAF and ten RAAF squadrons of all kinds. Australian aircrew served in transport and glider-towing squadrons which carried airborne troops, fighter-bombers and fighters operating directly over the beach-head, and many in heavy bomber squadrons which dropped thousands of tons of bombs in support of the landings. Coastal Command squadrons operated far from the beaches of Normandy, protecting the Channel crossings from German naval forces. Fourteen Australians were killed on D-Day (two RAN and 12 RAAF)." http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/remembering1942/dday/index.asp

Among others the opening of the Second Front, the Allied invasion of France, D Day June 6th 1944.

Normandy coast.

Normandy is an area of northern France and was named after the early Normans who lived there. It lies east of the Cotentin Peninsula, and the major port of Cherbourg, one of the objectives of the invasion. The landing sites were on the coast that surrounded the major city of Caen.

the Romans would slaughter their enemies at a distance. shields wouldn't be thick enough to absorb the shots and the roman empire would live on